March 26, 2016

A quick card for this beautiful spring Saturday. I am going to play along with the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop I think the number of participants is over 700, how can you not play along :) with all that talent, I missed the close date but I am ok with that.I found a scrap of this Damask DP in a drawer and I had an idea for a card right away. I used simple layers then heat embossed Happiness in brown. I added a little flag for the rest of the sentiment.

The tea cup is fussy cut and coloured with Distress inks and popped up with foam tape. I added a little texture to the brown strip along the middle.

I don't have any stamps with a Church so took a look at Pinterest and found a vintage postcard printable. I added some foam tape to the back. I added a couple of layers of DP and a button and paper swirl element.

March 14, 2016

We have a new inspiration challenge for The Challenge which is a colour challenge this week.

I used a gray patterned paper for the background. I then used die cuts to create and top panel and popped it up with foam tape. I used a stencils, gelato so and glass bead glitter gel. I then embossed the sentiment and popped it up with foam tape and I finished with some clear droplets.

I embossed the sentiment in white on black card stock and added two corners of silver and popped it up with foam tape. I used complimentary DP for the background and finished with black and silver sequins.

March 10, 2016

Ok so the dress is not really little :), and I cased a card I made back on July of 2010. You think I would have been able to pull that off without any hitches right.. not likely :).I could not find the template that I used for that first dress, of course this morning I realized it was a card I was given for a baby shower. Too late after that fact though.So I hand drew the lines, only took me three times of cutting the cardstock to get it right.. don't ask me how I even made it to the cutting part before discovering the mistakes.

Once I had the shaped card base done everything else fell into line nicely. I used the same designer paper from yesterday's card. I added some foam tape to lift the layers a little.

The edges are done with a border punch and I used and embossing folder to add texture.I added some ribbon and gems and then popped up the small sentiment.

March 9, 2016

I have to admit I was charmed by these adorable little dresses, I started this card thinking it would be quick and easy to put together. However in typical Nina fashion I made it into a production. One that I am very happy with.

I started out by die cutting the little dress outlines on the top panel. I then stamped three dresses on different patterned papers. I added foam to the back of the panel then lined up the stamped dresses to the die cut shapes before gluing them down. It was that step that seemed to elude me :).

I finally managed to get everything all lined up and I used some Wink of Stella on the itty little dress ribbon and added a brown pearl as a button. I finished with the sentiment.

March 8, 2016

It was nice to get a little play time in my craft space last night, even better - craft time with my favorite sister. I talked her into playing along with Bonnie and Loll's new CAS Mix Up Challenge. She is a an artist so I figured she could handle it nicely.

...and CAS it is, I did a nice simple wash for the background in blues and greens. I used pinks, purples, yellow and orange for the little butterflies. Once they were completely dried I did a couple of layers of Wink of Stella for some added sparkle. I used my Zig markers for the pretty array of colours.

The panel is popped up with a piece of foam, I added the sentiment and a few sequins.

March 7, 2016

Another quick post for this morning, I had fun with this sketch for the current The Challenge.

I wanted to try some foil on the stars for this card, as I loaded them into the Minc they shifted and I ended up with a little bundle all foiled together but I think turn out to be a interesting effect.

Good Morning and Happy Monday, we have a new Challenge for you for The Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge. I am the hostess this week and my challenge is for you is to Make a Christmas card with buttons on it.

I went with a CAS design, I stamped the sentiment then added the little envelope with its mini button and red floss. Both panels are die cut with stitched squares and the center panel is popped up with foam tape.